🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨
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Story, game dev, procgen, bad futurism, spooky AI and reality television. Everything is narrative design. she/her
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hey, wanna learn about why reality shows are emergent narrative systems, and see the generative mcmansion murder house game
@unormal
and I are kicking around? please watch my talk from roguelike celebration 2023!
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in British summer time there is something called “flying ant day”, and people just casually expect you to accept, from time to time, that it is “flying ant day”
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anyone who’s ever played a video game should know that if you don’t make a choice it times out and the system just picks for you
The Game Awards won't take sides on Activision fallout to focus on reveals:
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guys i know this is going to come as a shock, but when you send replies to women where you pretend to be a hostile/annoying man "as a joke" to prove you "get it", it is not meaningfully different from the "real" hostile/annoying replies and is not actually endearing
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look I know you are not going to believe this but your life has inherent value even when you are not being productive or especially good
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can you actually start putting women storytellers with significant experience in leadership roles now instead of making us pretend that we are young and need mentorship in order to make men comfortable enough to hire us
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@unormal
that's the heart of the souls games... it's not reflexes it's corresponding in visual language
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if you take "conquer and exploit an area that isn't yours" off the table, 90% of game dev dudes will be totally lost as to what the game should be about
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Dr. Phil’s house looking like a 1998 💿 game that you got out of a basket in the front of the computer store with a dented box and a sticker that says “Mind-Bending Graphics!”
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Pokémon employee A: let’s make one that’s a cute electric mouse!
Pokémon employee B: how about a a cute bird!
Pokémon employee C: and also one that wears the skull of its mother
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lady gaga’s experience of the game industry is all of ours
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Jonathan Blow… he’s that guy who made the Mario about women running away from him right
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you’re not from around here, are you.
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so like... those tesla bros that ride into any thread dunking on elon musk.... they're called... musketeers.... right?
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being friends w straight women is just mumbling “that sucks, you should dump him” loyally for years
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with every metaverse idea ask: why wouldn’t I just text. why wouldn’t we group call. why wouldn’t I one-click buy. what is the value add of fucking around in a 3D world to do basic things? there is none. who wants to go to work as a corporate cartoon? literally no one.
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here's a tip: there's no entertaining way. doing the undesirable behavior 'as a joke' is still undesirable, not endearing. we've heard so many 'well actually' 'jokes' that it's now indistinguishable from genuine undermining. avoid this temptation and you will go far in life
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you can’t ride the eagles to mordor because the whole fucking point of the story is that only a hobbit is so insignificant that sauron doesn’t see him
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‘geishas who will debate me and ultimately lose, while providing cheap food’ = the ~progressive~ man’s ideal
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so glad these are the aesthetics now. was so sick of 'realistic pores make game narrative more Immersive' era
Crow Country is OUT NOW on Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S - a PS1-inspired survival horror game set in an abandoned theme park
Store links below-
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next year, say no sometimes. don't reply. ignore notifications. cancel plans, tell people you feel sooo bad -- but don't actually feel bad. burn on a pyre the constant fear of dissatisfying others. let them be as dissatisfied as you have been for far too long.
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me as a narrative design consultant who turns all games Woke
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anytime i want to post a joke on twitter i think about all the people who won't get the joke, who will try to 'add to' the joke, or otherwise 'correct' the joke and it makes me hate y'all too much to give you any of my jokes
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anybody else freaked out by how instantaneously their community got excited to serve up their civil freedoms, nearly begging for more police enforcement and mobile phone surveillance and local snitching
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thinking in verbs is such a basic and overlooked game design component. so many exhausting meetings on What The Game Should Be, where nobody can answer the simpler question: What Does the Player Do
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i think this truly is my favorite picture in my pictures folder
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TO DO WHAT? A CRUCIAL FUNCTION OF MODELING IS TO SHOW THINGS THAT YOU CAN BUY, THAT EXIST. SERIOUSLY TO DO FUCKING WHAT
Both of these models do not exist.
You can hire them on once it's live.
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girl in bathroom: give me your phone, let me take your picture, trust me, you’re going to want to post this
me:
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I bet when they pitched The Good Place, nobody said “and then they deal with their relationships through comic surrealism and philosophy.” They just probably went “it’s a funny Hell”, and that’s something important to remember about pitching
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I came on Twitter bc I thought something good was going to happen but it was just everybody trying to get a woman to stop talking again
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RT if you think
@BobbyKotick
*also* needs to explain to the shareholders how he came to be a personal contact of Jeffrey Epstein
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I don't know who needs to hear this right now but tomatoes ruin burgers
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For your enjoyment, here is my personal favorite slide from my presentation
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Our wedding present from
@paullicino
is a framed print of this. He commissioned Matt Zeilinger. We're FREAKING OUT
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people who shame you for sharing your projects and successes have prob never had to work hard to survive. If you’re reading this, you did good this year, shout it out
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inspired by balenciaga, elden ring and celebrity fashion trends I believe it is time to start styling your chainmail hood for spring 1/???
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when rich white guys make “a space where you can do anything”, it always just means virtual conference lectures
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cause the fantasy is that labor and community building can be pleasant
why are all the "cozy games" about managing a small business or working on a farm. these are the two least relaxing things you can do
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The anime girl in my avatar who never complains represents TRUE feminism
http://t.co/oUMqCIxKfW
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they really want to support badass women in games but will draw the line at how you tweeted “men suck” one time
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JK is not just a transphobe, she actively would like transphobia in the workplace to be protected under law, which is even worse
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Related: Here's a beautiful picture of my grandparents. It was illegal in USA for them to get married when they met.
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the industry doesn’t really know how to tell stories, and it likes to bring in the writer as a low-pay external contractor after it’s too late to change anything
still wild to me that the game industry is like "writers are here to dress up the game" rather than going "the game is a story, and all the elements of the game act to serve the story."
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no, they practiced it on us in 2014
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I am the writer/narrative designer of Reigns 2! So thrilled to work with this team and we hope you are ready to BE QUEEN
Announcing Reigns: Her Majesty, the rightful heir to the award-winning royal swipe ‘em up Reigns! Coming in 2017.
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1. be cool
2. wipe down your machine
3. walk calmly toward the gym exit and straight into traffic
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imo all writer contracts now must contain a “you can’t fire me for tweets I did before you hired me” clause
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y’all disco elysium is not “about communism” it’s about complex and imperfect systemic expressions of identity and community amid scarcity
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Well, my first major narrative design/game writing project is out. Feels strange... Please play Reigns: Her Majesty on iOS, Google Play and Steam!
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I can’t believe it. Congratulations to all the nominees, I’m completely overwhelmed, thanks to
@nerial
for the opportunity
#wggbawards
#wggb60
Best Writing In A Video Game is won by Leigh
@leighalexander
for Reigns: Her Majesty
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kinda sucks how people skill up into management roles and then they have to do their job worse so that someone else can do their job better. management should be its own career track not just like, the promotion ceiling for a specialization
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years ago i said the most important takeaway from my experiences being targeted in 2014 was that this sort of bad-faith petitioning, based on whatever could be found in your internet footprint, was going to start happening to anyone upon whom the spotlight fell
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i wanted to rewatch neo yokio but i was drawing a blank on what it was called so I just googled “big toblerone show”
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dunno who needs to hear this today but you don’t need to figure out ‘what happens in the story’ half as much as you need to figure out what the player is likely to feel and to want to do from moment to moment in the space you created
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don't do worldbuilding too early. the world should be built to serve what's being expressed through the mechanics, and a big story bible without specific context is a waste of time and money at best, potentially confusing to the game design at worst
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if you knew just HOW little executives in our industry know about games and their audiences you'd scream
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i hope my new haircut will be a comfort and an inspiration to you all in these dark times
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ok so I’m absolutely obsessed w algorithmic casual game ads right now. this one seems to be about dealing with flooding and mice simultaneously while pregnant in jail
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information economy collapsed, being nice to your friend is 'care work', sharing your experiences and education with others is 'labor', media literacy is at an alltime low and we're losing access to our archives. seems fine
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important note: lots of abusive people hide in justice-oriented groups and perform the behaviors very well. If a dude seems overly committed to performing social justice, it’s a red flag. Help is an action not a personality
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'going through a story' is not a game design. 'seeing more content' is never a valid player motivation. nobody wants to see more of your content
What is an *actually* controversial game design opinion you hold?
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everybody has a procedurally generated dungeon inside them where they fight allegorical representations of their inner struggles
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a lot of smarmy opportunists tried to exploit gamergate to benefit their careers, wanking off The Gamers with 'both sides' bullshit, i SAW y'all, stay in your lane now
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this is supposed to be a satire but it sounds rad
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honestly it feels amazing. I don’t need to make anything at all as long as I can keep ruining it for you personally
@leighalexander
How does it feel to be one of the most infamous women in video game history?
We're still waiting for you and your fellow feminist carpet baggers to build a 100% female game studio and create something of substance instead of destroying what men have created.
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“I would love to work in an industry where.... standards of acceptable behaviour are higher than ‘has not committed a criminal offence’.“
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just IMAGINE people are leaving your company every MONTH, your major PUBLISHER has to bring in a consultant to find out what the fuck is going on, and you STILL keep your job on the team? couldn’t be me, or any woman
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this Target location is only on 2/3rds power
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seriously though, if you start kind of lowkey testing how many well-intentioned and supposedly creative people cannot extricate white supremacy from the notion of "adventure", it's very depressing
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evangelion is not that complicated. the “AT field” is the protective ego. the “angel” is the mortifying ordeal of being known. the “eva” is our self-image, our obligation to engage despite the pain, driven by relational wounds, duh
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so many men in this industry are interested in Helping Women so long as we are young, submissive, grateful and make them look good. Once we expect to be treated like peers and colleagues the bubble bursts for them and they go back to caressing their figurines or whatever
Having someone wince when I mentioned my age in an interview and then the tone changed from them being excited to being totally uninterested after that is not exactly the vibes I was hoping for going into the weekend, but ok 😮💨
36 does not equate the crypt keeper y’all 😭
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I hope the lesson other studios take from Tears of the Kingdom is not that they should try to make big games on this level, but that they have no prayer of making big games on this level
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me, not writing: i wish i were writing. if only i were writing, then i could see my great ideas developed and all my pain would be cured
me, writing: fuck. this sucks, what the fuck
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me: this world seems rich and interesting but can we subvert the inherent colonialism in some way
game devs: hm... but then the player won't have anything to do
me: yeah, i guess there just aren't many solutions there for us, the experience designers
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also, dudes: sometimes the feminist thing to do is simply "NOT hooking up with this much younger and/or more junior person in your small-world industry EVEN IF she doesn't report directly to you and EVEN IF she seems to really want to". think about it!
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wait sorry everyone i forgot: i am a woman who eats two appetizers alone in a tiki bar, AND a game i wrote is
#1
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becoming the disco elysium version of myself a little more each day
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it seems like only yesterday I was hounded relentlessly for using mean words to suggest gamers had a toxic and entitled culture
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LOTS of my friends ask if they should quit their job to focus on writing. if you don't write when you have 1 hr you will do even less with 8
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when i worked in media every one of my colleagues and every outlet i worked for was impacted by a narrative that we now see was manufactured by facebook
If you missed it: today it was confirmed that Facebook massively & knowingly inflated its video-view statistics, which had the DIRECT consequence of 90% of media orgs firing writers in favor of expensive video producers, who also got fired when it turned out video was worthless
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it's even more depressing to have known it for ages and been TRYING to TELL you
How depressing, infuriating, and otherworldly it is to realise that videogames were the canary in the coalmine for the politics of 2016
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'glider' (1988), a macintosh paper airplane game
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how much time are y'all going to spend writing revelatory bullshit re things we TOLD you like years ago re certain people, certain platforms
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I'm the writer/narrative designer of Reigns: Her Majesty. We are all excited for you to become Queen~
Let it be known across the land, Reigns: Her Majesty arrives on the App Store, Google Play, and Steam December 7!
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Most of all, cheers to the queers, let’s live another year
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you: ...so you want to make a game about TALKING to MONSTERS instead of HITTING them? BORING
me: i mean i think it's hilarious this is the only place your imagination ever goes, but if you were better at your job you could have taken that idea and made shin megami tensei sooo
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them: we realllly reallllly need an experienced adult woman's perspective on this story pleaseeee pleaseeee
me: okay fine, the plot structure is really dated, no more boy heroes finding maguffins
them: hmm too confusing, we went with someone else
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giving a talk about how all games should be made in spreadsheets vs working on a game entirely made in a spreadsheet
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elon musk tweeting like he's on the livejournal sephiroth roleplay thread from 1998
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pandemic has highlighted the extent to which we were not meant to obtain and prepare nutrition multiple times a day on an individual or couple basis. we are supposed to live in societies and families and take turns feeding each other
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no one in my community supports my protest action
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